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Brentano String Quartet:
Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles

Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:30 PM
The Menil Collection

Kurt Weill	Walt Whitman Songs
Lee Hyla	Howl for string quartet and recorded voice (Allen Ginsberg)
Schoenberg	Ode to Napoleon for string quartet, piano and narrator
Beethoven	Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Leon Williams, baritone; Brentano String Quartet
(Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin;
Misha Amory, viola; Nina Maria Lee, cello);
Scott Holshouser, piano; Sarah Rothenberg, piano

This wide-ranging program features unusual settings of poetry and music: Lee Hyla’s Howl incorporates a recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his rapturous, confessional 1956 poem; émigré composer Arnold Schoenberg in America sets a poem by Byron in response to Hitler’s world aggression. Another German émigré, Kurt Weill, shifts from Berlin cabaret to great American poet Walt Whitman. The evening closes with Beethoven’s revolutionary Grosse Fuge.

Please note: Howl contains strong language that may be offensive to some audience members.

In this video, the Brentano String Quartet performs Mendelssohn's Quartet in F minor, Op. 80

Tickets: For tickets, call 713-524-5050 or click here. Tickets are available at the door on the night of the concert beginning at 6:30 PM.

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